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Military Times on MSNFirst Black officer to earn Medal of Honor sacrificed all in VietnamMany of Pitts’ soldiers believed they would not have made it through the ordeal had it not been for the leadership of their ...
Fighting in the City of Hue as a Marine, Myron Harrington was awarded the Silver Star and Navy Cross a week apart.
It also detailed his bravery during Vietnam in the early spring ... for valor and three Purple Hearts, among other awards, leading the Marine Corps to call him "one of the most decorated Marines ...
He was awarded a Navy Achievement Medal for his actions ... according to a Marine Corps Reserve press release. Several decades earlier, as the Vietnam War ended and Americans exited the country ...
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Army Times on MSNMarine gets highest noncombat award for acts in fatal Osprey crashWatson, left, student naval aviator, is awarded the Navy and Marine Corps Medal at the National Naval Aviation Museum, ...
A group of veterans and lawmakers is urging President Donald Trump to award an 87-year-old Marine Corps "legend" and war hero the Medal of Honor ... served in the Vietnam War and saved seven ...
Kathy Strong lays a brick honoring Sgt. 1st Class James Moreland atThe Pacific War Memorial by the entrance of Marine Corps Base Hawaii on Tuesday. (Kevin Knodell / ) 1 /4 Kathy Strong lays a brick ...
It was not until Vietnam, however, that a Black soldier, Riley Pitts, earned both an officer’s commission and the Medal of Honor. Born in Fallis, Oklahoma, on Oct. 15, 1937, Riley Leroy Pitts ...
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